Yar! Nanites FTW!

what if it wasn't random, but left to player chars to patrol and scan for cargo. sort of a legitimized form of "piracy" in a way. for exampple, say a smuggler is carrying something into an Itani monitored sector, inseat of having NPCs patrolling and scanning for illegal cargo, any Itani player in that sector would be permitted to shoot down a smuggler once they've been successfully scanned, and then they could get a rep boost for that. it may be a way to provide a little more action in monitored sectors...

of course, it would suck to be a narc, but i'm sure if osme players want to be smugglers, others will get a kick out of hunting for them...

maybe this has been suggested before, but i didn't see it.